Mark Horne

There is a “golden age” before the Church – at least an age relatively golden gradually ripening to higher and higher glories as the Church more and more conquers the world and all the evil of [...]

It is the great conception which John is reflecting in the phrase, “he is the propitiation for our sins, and [...]

Passage: Romans 5 (ESV Bible Online).
Commentators agonize over why Paul says, “Therefore…” in Romans 5.12.
But surely the reason is in 5.1-11.  We were justified when death and sin were at their high point, when we were “weak” and “still sinners.”  And we can be sure that we will move from victory to victory, even through [...]

From Romans 5:
9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved [...]

Typical outlines of Paul say he is still dealing with or discussing justification in Romans 5.  Then he “turns” to sanctification in Romans 6.
But Romans 6 is simply an elaboration and application of what Paul says at the beginning of Romans 5.  ”More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, [...]

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You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down [...]

As a 6-year-old growing up at a time when Hal Lindsey’s “Late Great Planet Earth” was holding sway in Southern Baptist churches, Jerry Johnson was fascinated by the talk of end times.
He later earned three theological degrees that prepared him for service at Boyce College, Criswell College and his current role as academic dean at [...]

This post is excellent.  It is being published in Ligonier’s Magazine, “Tabletalk.”
The analogy of using a wide-angle lens rather than a zoom lens comes from an impeccable source. (Not just on his blog but also in the Westminster Theological Journal and in at least one of Leithart’s many books)
It is evil that if Peter Leithart [...]

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And [...]

By far the major point of Paul’s argumentation about the change that Christ brings is Post Millennialism.  The downward spiral of Israel and the Nations that could not be stopped because of sin working in the flesh has now been stopped and overcome.  Christ now brings a reign of grace in the place of the [...]

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One of the reason people are susceptible to wrong ideas about Jesus and the future, is that human nature is prone to think about how things could be better rather than realizing they could be much worse.  But the history of pessimistic eschatology [...]

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The Great Commission tells Christians to persuade people to become disciples of Jesus and train them to obey everything that Jesus commands because he has won all authority in Heaven and on Earth.  Yet somehow we are supposed to believe that God wants some kind of [...]

To recap, I’ve argued that a straightforward reading of the Bible shows us that Jesus wants, expects, and promises the world will be converted to Christ.  I’ve also argued that a passage about one generation’s failure to embrace the Gospel is getting mistakenly transferred to our future (in my opinion this is a representative example [...]

Someone asked why more people don’t see the plain and straightforward claims of the Bible about the future.  I doubt I have much more to add to what I have already presented.  As far as I can tell it is rarely even admitted that these passsages exist.  Instead, other passages are used to claim a [...]

What does Jesus expect to happen in world history?  We know what he told his disciples to make happen:
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and disciple all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son [...]